Hot on the heels of InSite's victory - Part 1 of the documentary Raw Opium will have it's television premiere on TV Ontario October 5, followed by a livestream discussion and an ongoing Twitter converstation tagged #drugpolicy
TVO and Kensington TV are hosting an online live chat during the broadcast with Special Guest: Richard Elliott, Executive Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. (Pictured right)
Richard is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Centre for Human Rights and Drug Policy. He and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network defended Insite at the Supreme Court of Canada in May 2011, in the case in which the Conservative Government tried to shut Insite clinic down.
He has authored numerous publications on a range of legal and human rights issues related to HIV/AIDS and presented extensively on HIV-related human rights issues across the country and internationally.
Raw Opium hopes the online discussion will come from a broad spectrum of opinion about harm reduction and drug policy reform - it's especially timely with the Conservative Crime Bill currently before the House.
Raw Opium is launching a Twitter conversation around #DrugPolicy. @RawOpium and @TVO are starting the conversation now. Just tweet us at @RawOpium and use the hashtag #drugpolicy to share relevant links.
@HelloCoolWorld wil be participating and adding the hashtag #SMWhealth following our Social Media Week Vancouver mashup on social media and health promotion. Check out Michelle's wrap up blog. We're still tweeting using #SMWhealth for all our health campaigns if you care to follow our conversation.
Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
Street Nurse Fiona Gold and HelloCoolWorld had a chance to catch up with Donald McPherson (former Drug Policy Coordinator for the City of Vancouver) on what he has been up to. Donald shares his visions of a national drug policy group that includes a dialogue with Canadians on what kind of drug policies they would like to see implemented in Canada.
We fly through Philadelphia, Baltimore and then find ourselves in Union Station in Washington DC. Another media experience and more questions about how does US drug policy differ from Canadian policy. The producer refers to drug ABusers and speaks about substance MISuse. It is a good springboard to broach the topic of stigma, discrimination. If people who use drugs are not valued why should we as a society devote any funding for services or programs to assist them?
Thursday - Oct. 27
We take the train back to New York the following morning and that evening present Bevel Up at the International Urban Health Conference. A spirited discussion follows the screening. Participants are curious to talk about decriminalization and Portugal’s experiences over the last 10 years.
Yikes my nose is getting powdered for TV. How the hell do street nurses end up on TV? (And now she is combing my hair.) Frankly I am quite uncomfortable whereas Juanita looks highly composed on her side of the table. The studio is dark and the TV cameras roll in the wings manned by silent people. Our interviewer Ronnie Eldridge has lovely brown eyes and I focus on her eyes. A friendly face in the weirdness. It is a local unversity TV station. I breathe great relief as we step back into the street and gaze up at the top of the Empire State building.
Bevel Up Nurses at Ninth International Conference on Urban Health
Tomorrow, October 28, Juanita Maginley and Fiona Gold from the British Columbia Street Nursing Program are at the New York Academy of Medicine’s Ninth International Conference on Urban Health. This event is open to the public, part of a conference that brings together international experts for a full screening and discussion of harm reduction in varying urban settings.
Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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